The Forrest City times., 1887-11-19
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 A bill has been presented in congress for she coinage of ssoo, 900 into copper centa
 The police have made recently numerous aptures of counterfeiters in the city of Mexico
 There is q prospect that . steamboat line rom Providence to New York will be renewed n the spring
 The attempt made to grow coffee and tobsc- 70 on the sugar plantations of Cuautla, More os. has been successful.
 The peanut harvest in Virginia is estimat- d at l,0oo, 900 bushels and nine peanut fsc- ories clean and sort the nuts for market
 White pepper frequently has undergone . process of bleaching by chlorine, which i'm proves it's color but deteriorates the quality.
 An elderly minister at a social party, where he young people were dancing, being asked i he danced, replied, "No am not educated tt that endn
 An English physician recommends football Or girls. He says 1t is an exhilarating game md would prove highly beneficial to young Adies who are apt to moroid or be hysterical. The most desperate gambler atAir-les- Balnes his fall is an old woman, Greek by birth. She nays gh and with great cooiness. Her per- onal appearance Is said to bs tue reverse of attractive.
 Some fashionable women in Philadclpia have he backs and seats of bedroom chairs up- iolistered with silk and filled with broken ,alsam poughs, which give fragrance for tho whole season.
 Eighty thousand soeialistic pamphlets were distributed about the streets of Berlin a few lays ago by women. The police were unable odIscoyer the distributors until the pamphlets we're all gone.
 Worlsmen laying the foundation of rsil pad shed in Portland, Me, on Sept. 1, found ce thirteen feet below the surface. This hows that in A hot summer Maine thaws out Or distance down.
 The principal street in Wstsonvllle, Cal, 'is .ighty feet wide with fourtcen-foot sidewalks ,n each side, leaving a roadway ffty-two feet vide. It Is grand thoroughfare, and Is now ,eing covered with bitumenized rock.
 A popular but silly fashion Is to stick . lot If imitation bugs and spiders on the large silk umbrella shades for high standing lamps which are now so extensively used in drawing. ,ooms and libraries, and which make eucher parties so picturesque.
 Joseph valois, of Peterborough, Canada accused of having criminslly assaulted his own laughter, was dismissed by tho magistrate. he girl having declared that her first story vas falsehood, instigated by her stepmother, sho was angry with her father.
 man must have good -sixed bank account he wishes to reside fin Pasadena, Cal. House rent is enormous, and The Star says hat a room that was leased for $40 per month vas subleased for $s0 then subdvided at t45 DOT quarter, or S1So for the room.
 "whIle Augusta has appeared to be stand ng still," remarks 7hs Chronicle, mo city in ;he south, with the exception of one or two in he mineral regions, has invested 30 much money in manufactures In cotton manufac- turing Augusta leads the south."
 Timothy Bacon, of Barre, Mass, will be 101 fears old next month. He was born at Natick November, 17s6. He is in good health md can walk mile. He occasionally attends eliglous revival meetings near his home, and takes . fervent part in the services.
 High license is working satisfactorily to all parties In Arlington, Ga. It fixed the whisky icense at $500 and two men at once paid si,. sO0 into the treasury. Of this q, 900 will be lsed in building school-house, and the town .eels rich with its balance of $500 in bank.
 Workmen repairing a street at San Juan, San Benito county, Cal, Friday evening of last week unesrthed several hundred skele- Ions. The street having been in constant use Tor tho past century, the skeletons must be those of Indian tribes that once inhabited the San Juan valley.
 Dovecotes are to be established for carrier pigeons on the roof of the national palace of she City of Mexico aud at the castle of Cha pultcpcc for the use of the government. The principal employment of the birds will proba- ply be to carry dispatches between the two places above named.
 The grand jury of the United States court h Arizona has discovered that organized cat tlethieves have been stealing cattle from the Indians on the San Carlos reservation during .he past year Several prominent citizens arc implicated. Much of the Indian trouble is due 10 cattle-stealing.
 The town of Guadalupe Hldalgo, in the Federal district, and the town Of San Miguel Allende, in the state of Guanajuato, have adopted the American custom of observing Arbor day. They have selected Sept. l6 of every year as the date on which each good citizen shall plant "A tree.
 The populace seems to have an idea that they can get anything they want at the pos office, says The St. Joh ,sbarg (Vt) Rspa6liean. The clerks are daily asked to cash the mouey orders issued by the express company; man this week asked for an electrical battery, and to cap the climax citizen from way back bad h..ll apA ulaA rfUk ef rum.
 The next great invention prophesled by Mir. Edison is the turning of coal into motive power without the mediation of steam. Now about three-fourths of the energy in coal is wasted while getting at the other fourth. If the invention of producing electricity directly from coal succeeds, a steamer that now burns l50 tons Of coal day will burn 9 tons ln- Itead.
 At meeting of the biological and mIcros. topical section of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences on Monday evening there was only one bald-headed man in tho gather Ing of savants. This was accounted for upon the theory that "the persistent use Of the optic nerve and retina by means of the microscope has beneficial and stimulating effect upon the capillary tubesn
 The papers of the City of Mexico are again igitating the question of free printing paper, pr at least demand q considerable reduction in he present importation duties on that article. It has becu clearly shown that the present im- oortation duties are such burden as to make he publishing business unproitabie in Mexico and to entirely deprive the masses of the peo- pie of cheap literature
 The Russian minister of rsliwsys has ap- pointed a comml lssion to select A method of ighting railsay-ears with electricity, and all she principal companies will hereafter be com pelled to use the light on passenger trains The South Russian railway has for some time used the light on all it's fast trains from Odessa to Kiefr and the czArs special trains have been so lighted for a long time.
 The city council of Laredo, Tex, declined the proposition Of the ornelas Bridge com